REVIEW: Samsung Galaxy Tab eyes avid Apple-fanboys
Tips / / December 19, 2019
Many weeks ago, I got into the hands of the device, which is considered the only real rival to the sensational and almost after he became the de facto standard in the world of Apple iPad tablets. Called this toy Samsung Galaxy Tab. This device immediately after the appearance has been the object of jokes - is expensive, too big for a phone, too small for a tablet. But when we look now 3 weeks later I still can not decide what to give to his wife - iPad or Tab. Though they are of a class of devices, but each in its own good.
I am interested in such devices is not a lot of things - I do not care about processors, spit on built-in memory and is an extension of the card or not, the autonomy of 4-6 hours for me more than sufficient. I just need a few things: read, brauzit on the Internet, to be in touch in a million channels of communication such as Skype, GTalk, Twitter, Facebook, E-mail, as well as to my business, which has been underway for several years on the GTD system with more or less success result. Well, another application, which I'm not ready to give up the phone - urban navigation, ie maps, traffic jams and other 'where's eat pizza? "
Go!
Start like to tactile sensations. Yes, Galaxy Tab plastic, not aluminum like its competitor, but that he does not seem cheap stuff - he does not disclosed, and therefore does not creak and rumbles as I have seen the same devices from Nokia (and them I had a very lot).
Managed by the device only with your fingers and no crutches, sticks, mediators do not have it. That's cool.
Galaxy Tab in the time of testing I have lived in the inner pocket of the jacket, and when moving in the room he was in the back pocket of jeans. If he fell, it just crashed if I sat on him, he would have died. He did not fall, and I did not sit on it. Two weeks never. Unpleasant and even that covers for the "tabs" are not found, so that the wife-needlewoman was ordered to make the aforesaid felt :)
Now let's go over to my requirements and I will tell you how to perform their Galaxy Tab or their own zafeylili.
Size, weight
The fact that the iPad weighs weighs as much - it's not right. It's heavy and big. He needs a cover and a bag for transport. In the case of Samsung's all OK - lightweight and fits well in one hand, but there is one unpleasant "but" - "wide" 16: 9 screen wrong decision for the class "tablet" devices. Why? Below are a few answers. Give 4: 3 in all tablets!
Reading
The guys from "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber" sent Layfhakeru wonderful book in PDF, which is about to be sold to the paper and asked to do a review. Overview I failed, because I went to the Galaxy Tab and its 16: 9 screen, in which the book page with the text in the middle, and wide margins left and right unreadable - the text too small. But on the iPad all read well - and then 4: 3 taxis! If you have books in epub and fb2, it will be all OK - reading them a pleasure. Be sure to download the program Moon + Reader.
Internet Browsing
Adobe Flash needs to die quickly, decisively, without suffering, humanity!
Yes, "the tab" support flash, but it's a curse that inhibits any page that kills your battery just like that, just for fun. Demolition of this plug-in as soon as you get into the hands of the device - from this it will be better at 73.6% (tested by British scientists) :) Otherwise, the built-in browser is agile, easy to use and good. After the iPad feel that he's just another, but to understand that it is not so difficult. I suited both of them.
Skype, GTalk & Co.
Problems arose only with Skype - it it does not exist in the Android Market. To download it, you must know someone who will give you a direct Web link to download. I had such a friend, but if you have this, you will have you and Skype :) As it is convenient in touch and call. And yet, when you type any phone, you are asked - dial in Skype or on the phone! I was delighted. Incidentally Tab can pretend phone - sometimes it's very cool. The absence of even checking account with a 3G operator a simple USSD requests - it zhlobstvo Apple and nothing can dissuade me.
The rest of Gtalk, Twitter and Facebook, there are a stunningly comfortable minimalist solutions and they are integrated into the system cool android notifications. This is another stone in the iPad - look at reds tsiferki on different pages of its interface - is not effective and neyuzabelno.
Galaxy Tab here would be the undisputed champion, if not one but a great OS - it spontaneously discharged through to free up memory. What the devil - is not clear.
task management
Then there are nice astrid Tasks and familiar to all our readers a client for Remember the Milk. All perfectly! But again, "but." No there eplovskogo Things and OmniFocus. They masterpiece and a stunning and poke necessary here to programmers who do not want to write, and poking his nose Google that created a platform with different screens, processors, and slurred sales model. No there masterpiece of software as iOS and seem not expected.
City navigation
Then you and the preinstalled Google Maps, as well as excellent by Yandex maps with traffic jams and conversations with marching poprobkam step. It works great on Galaxy Tab. Use maps on it convenient, since it does not cause a lot of unnecessary attention to themselves in the streets (not always central;) of the city. I travel a lot and to work and to travel Korea Galaxy Tab will be my companion, than the iPad - it is too glamorous places for my stay - I happened to get him scared out of the bag, and then the leather of the expensive cover. Why take a Galaxy Tab - plastic, yeah;)
Two words about Android
After iOS this system - a real disaster! Neponyatki with a shop and regions neponyatki payments, standardized software backup store from Samsung. I understand that Android - the best there is, but iOS is better. I drove and this and that and this is my personal conclusion. I understand that the other mobile operating systems or trash, or the tale of the afterlife, which is about to happen. So that, God forbid forces and Android and iOS, but the second - my rational and irrational choice.
PRICE
There is a joke, "We thought that the iPad is expensive, while in Russia announced Galaxy Tab for $ 1,300" :) Today, everything is different, and the main lack of product from Samsung such ceases to be - the price falls, and just need to catch the when it will be most appropriate for you. My feeling is the device costs $ 600... 700, more - expensive.
During the week we will publish VideoTesT Samsung Galaxy Tab VS Apple iPad in browsing, where we compare the built-in browser, and I'll show you what a "mobile flash» in earnest.
I am waiting for comments and questions :)